Archive for October, 2008
Google, Yahoo Ad Partnership May Falter
A proposed partnership amoung Google and Yahoo for the sale and distribution of online advertisements has been a hot topic in tech circles that year, drawing scrutiny from privacy groups, European regulators and the Justice division. Now reports are circulating that the long-delayed deal might fall …
Google Makes PDF Files Searchable
Google has rarely included scanned documents in its search results considering it had no way to determine the nature of the subject matter, but that’s about to change. The search engine giant says it will use optical character recognition (OCR) software to manufacture it possible for Web surfers to …
IBM Sues VP Mark Papermaster for Moving to Apple
IBM is not letting go without a fight. The computer maker has filed a lawsuit against one of its former top-level executives who left the company to work at Apple.
Mark Papermaster, a server expert and vice president of IBM’s blade development unit, is slated to start at Apple in just a few weeks …
Google Offers SLA for Premier Apps
In a wake of Gmail outages and buggy Apps that drew the ire of its loyal user base, Google on Thursday announced a service level agreement (SLA) for the Premier Edition of Google Apps.
Google’s premium online productivity and collaboration suite now comes with a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee for Gm…
Tivo-Netflix Move Heats Up On-Demand Movie Market
Wednesday’s announcement that Tivo will start offering streaming video from DVD-rental company Netflix is one more indication that technology companies increasingly see an on-demand future.
Under the terms of the agreement, the owners of recent Tivo machines (TiVo Series3, TiVo HD, and TiVo HD XL) …
Microsoft’s Live Framework Left in the Shadow of Azure
Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference set the scene for a slew of major announcements and releases from the software giant, but one piece of news–although significant–did not get the attention it deserved.
Microsofoft’s announced its Live Framework platform which is a uniform way for pro…
Sony, HP, Dell, Toshiba Recall ‘Firecracker’ Laptop Batteries
Sony and three major PC makers are recalling 100,000 laptop batteries in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Lithium-Ion batteries used in about 35,000 Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba and Dell notebook computers — as well as an additional 65,000 units sold worldwide — are defec…
